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which does not reach far beyond the occiput ; tail broadly 

 tipped with white, upper tail-coverts pure white or ashy 

 white, under tail-coverts red or yellow, strongly contrast- 

 ing with the ashy under surface of the bird. Tarsus long- 

 er than culmen, wing longer than tail. From the African 

 genus Pycnonotus, which is also destitute of any green in 

 the plumage , it differs by the stronger and more thickly 

 set crest, by the white tip to the tail and the white up- 

 per tail-coverts. — Ten species known. 



Range. From Persia throughout British India and 

 Ceylon eastward into Southern China and southward to 

 Tenasserim; one species found in Java. 



Key to the species. 



a. Under tail-coverts red. 



a'. Entire head and hind neck black, ear-coverts cho- 

 colate-brown, strongly contrasting with the sur- 

 rounding plumage. 



a". Chin, throat, chest and upper breast black. . bengalensis. 



b" . Chin and throat only black, chest brown. . . interniedius. 

 b' . The black of the crown not extending upon hind 

 neck and mantle, ear-coverts not chocolate-brown. 



a". Ear-coverts black, undistinguishable from crown, haemorrhous. 



h" . Ear-coverts sandy brown, contrasting with crown. 



a'" . Chin, throat and chest black burmanicus. 



b'" . Chin and upper throat only black .... nigripileus. 



c'. Ear-coverts sandy white like lower surface . . atricapillus. 



b. Under tail-coverts yellow. 



a'. Chin and upper throat black. 



a". Back mottled with black centres aurigaster. 



b". Back uniform Oermaini. 



b . Chin and entire throat black, the lower throat very 

 broadly so. 



a". Under tail-coverts saffron-yellow leucotis. 



b" . Under tail-coverts sulphur-yellow Humii. 



' 1 . Molpastes bengalensis. 



Pycnonotus bengalensis Blyth , J. A. S. Beng. XIV, p. 566 (1845), 

 Pijcnonotus pygaeus Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. I, p. 



239 (1854); Sharpe, Cat. B. VI, p. 128 (1881). 

 Molpastes bengalensis 'Gates, B. Br. Ind. I, p. 271 (1889). 



Notes from ttie Leyden Museum , Vol. X"V1I. 



